Microsoft Paint

Microsoft Paint is a basic raster graphics editor included with Microsoft Windows. It supports simple drawing, image editing, and saving in common image formats.

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Raster graphics: Digital images represented as grids of pixels, each storing a color value. Paint edits images by changing pixel colors on a rectangular canvas.
Image file format: A specification for encoding and storing digital image data. Paint opens and saves images through formats with different capabilities.
Windows 1.0: Microsoft's first graphical operating environment for personal computers, released in 1985. Paint debuted as a Windows application in the system's first release.
Digital drawing: Creating images with electronic tools that represent marks as digital data. Paint provides simple freehand tools for making drawings on a computer.
Paint.NET: A raster graphics editor for Windows that offers more advanced editing features than Microsoft Paint. Paint.NET extends familiar painting tools with layers and broader effects.
Pixel: The smallest addressable picture element in a raster image. Paint's pencil, fill, and brush tools ultimately alter pixels.
JPEG: A lossy image-compression standard commonly used for photographs. Unlike BMP, JPEG reduces file size by discarding image detail.
ZSoft Corporation: An American software company known for developing PC Paintbrush. Microsoft Paint was based on PC Paintbrush, ZSoft's graphics program.
Screenshot: A captured image of the visible contents of a computer display. Paint can crop, annotate, and save captured screen images.
Microsoft Paint 3D: A Windows graphics application designed for both two-dimensional and three-dimensional editing. Paint 3D added 3D object tools absent from classic Paint.